On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:45 PM, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

You'd think there would be an exemption for ships without m-drives. :) A suicidal xboat pilot isn't much of a threat to anyone other than himself, and to anything other than a databank full of mail.

Since a ship exiting jump retains it's initial vector and velocity, that just makes using an xboat as a WMD a matter of somewhat chancy timing. If you can manage to have the ship emerge somewhere/when ahead of the planet along it's orbital path, then it's going to hit the surface *somewhere.* 

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